Montesquieu wrote:
The legality of secretly taping conversations is, as I understand it, a matter of state law. Just for the heck of it I looked at the Oregon statute (http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/165.540) and it is a bit unclear (I'm not an attorney, though) and I assume case law might also be relevant. Does anyone know where Oregon stands on this matter?
the exit interview wrote:His secret recording contradicts his earlier narrative of "Hey I wasn't fired for performance reasons because I have this mutual termination agreement which says they'd consider hiring me again. Things were great!"
He can't keep his stories straight.
Oregon is a one-party consent state, so as long as long as both parties were in Oregon, and one of them knew the conversation was being recorded, everything is copacetic.
http://www.aapsonline.org/judicial/telephone.htm